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Lumber By-Products, North and South

From Shasta's Lofty Summit to Coronado's Silver Strand.

JOHN E. RHODES PASSES AWAY

Mr. John E. Rhodes, for the last eight years secretarymanager of the Southern Pine Association, and widely known throughout the lumber industry and in business circles of the United States, died at New Orleans, on Saturday, June 2.

Mr. Rhodes. a native of Ohio was survived bv his widow. his father, James Rhodes, and a brother, Franl< A. Rhodes of San Jose, California.

Mr. Rhodes was in the newspaper business for several years, leaving that work in 1898 to become secretary of the Northern Pine Association, ard later becoming connected with the Weyerhauser timber interests. He took the position as secretary-manager of the Southern Plne Association in 1915.

Hume Mill Runs Again

For the first time'since it burned five years ago, the saw mill at Ffume, operated by the Sanger Lumber Company, began cutting this u'eek at a daily output of 65 thousand feet.

George A. Hume, president, announced that with the one shift of three hundred men the Hume mill would operate until they opened the Sanger mill. The shift would be doubled then and men pttt to work at Sanger.

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